CRICKET.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXIV, Issue 8055, 2 November 1897, Page 3

CRICKET.

STODDART'S TEAM V. SOUTH AUSTRALIA. Adelaide, Nov. 1. In the second innings of South Australia, Reedman made 37, W. Giffen (not out) 28, Evans 11, Jarvis (not out) 0, sundries 10; total for 5 wickets 187.

Bowling analysis : Hirst 1 for 38, Hearue 1 for 32, Richardson 2 for 8, Briggs 0 for 5, Hayward 1 for 22.

It rained heavily last night, and the match, which to-day was interrupted by frequent showers, was drawn.

>Stoddart'B team have left for Melbourne,

Nov. 2. — The action of the English umpire Phillips in " no balling " Jones for extra-fast delivering has given rise to much comment and diversity of opinion, and has raised the burning question of fairness or otherwise in his bowling. Phillips previously warned Jones, and only adopted the extreme course of "no balling" him because Jones took little notice of the warning.

Professor Falb, of Vienna, announces that on November 13th, 1899, a comet will strike the earth, and that the end of the world is to be the result. Meanwhile (writes Miss Proctor, daughter of the late Richard A. Proctor), he is probably making calculations to ascertain whether the violence of- the shock will reduce our planet to dust, or whether it will be enveloped in an atmosphere of poisonous gas, which will kill all living beings. Fortunately, science reassures us as to our possible fate, the chances being one in fifteen millions that the earth will De destroyed by colliding with a comet. It has also taught us to look forward to the night of November 13th, 1899, as the date of a regularly-occurring event every thirtythree years.

A Brussels man recently gave a peculiar dinner. One of tho guests says : I ate apple ripened more than 1800 years ago, bread made from wheat grown before the Children of Israel passed through the Red Sea, and spread with butter made when Elizabeth was' Queen, and I washed down the repast with wine that was old hundreds of years before Shakespeare was born. The apples were taken from an earthen jar taken from the ruins of Pompeii, the wheat was taken from a chamber in one of the Pyramids, tho butter from a stone shelf in an old well in Scotland, where for several centuries it had lain in an earthen crock in icy water, and the wine was recovered from an old vault in the city of Corinth. The Welsh bicyclist Michael, who is credited with being the fastest rider in the world, gives, in a letter to one of the New York papers, an interesting account of his sensations while path racing. For a few miles he can hear his trainer call off his speed and give advice, which he is able to take, but at the end of ten miles "the course becomes a grey streak rushing beneath my feet, and all the sounds and cheers are gradually dying away, and the rush of air sounds like a dull roar from afar. The light of day changes to the dulness of evening, and the twang of the spokes cutting the air grows fainter and fainter, and at twenty miles tho only sound that comes to me is the low purr of the running wheels. At twentyfive miles I have lost all sense of hearing, all power to think, all feeling. I seem to be absolutely motionless in my limbs, but I am literally flying through the air. Pacer after pacer comes and goes, and disturbs me not. I instinctively follow anything that seems to be leading me, and the change is made by instinct. When the race is over, I once again collect the faculties that have been dulled in the effort, and am right in a very short time." Michael, although only twenty, calculates that he has already ridden over 100,000 miles, arid candidly admits that he believes he is riding himself to death.